LATimes: Ex-Officials Now Behind New Voting Machines

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-revolving10nov10,1,7149331.story?coll=la-home-leftrail

As secretary of state in 2001, Bill Jones moved to rid California of the type of antiquated voting machines that helped throw the presidential election into turmoil in Florida. Then last year he sponsored a successful $200-million industry-backed bond measure that gave counties money to buy high-tech replacements.

Now, the former elections chief is a paid consultant to one of the major voting machine firms vying for that business.

One of his former top aides has become a vice president for business development with the same company, Sequoia Voting Systems. Another former employee is working on Sequoia business strategies.

And the official who oversaw the certification of new voting machines under Jones has signed on as a competitor's California general manager.

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Jones, a family farmer from Fresno and a potential Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, was a central figure in the state's push toward revamping voting systems during his eight years as elections chief.

[LearnedHand]

1. Tell me again why this is legal?

:puke:

[leftchick]

2. omg....

:wow:..... this is BIG! Exposing the players in a major newspaper!!!

[librechik]

3. John Sununu represents Diebold?

Ah, payback among the top echelon of Bush cronies. Ain't it beautiful?

:puke:

[spooked]

7. Voting Machines helped ELECT John Sununu's son

to the U.S. Senate in 2002.


http://www.voxfux.com/articles(closed)/00000051.htm

(You have to copy and paste the entire link) Link to article
"Diebold voting machines hand suprise victories to Republicans"

[dusty64]

10. Interesting and heartening that

this story is beginning to get a bit of exposure. It IS the biggest story of our time and the fate of our democracy depends on the outcome.

[Gingersnap]

4. KICK n/t

[frank frankly]

5. kick

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[pfitz59]

6. "Family farmer" from Fresno!

What a crock! Welfare farmer more like it! Crop subsidies. Water subsidies. Tax exemptions AND migrant labor! South San Joaquin is queen of corporate welfare farms!

[Dover]

8. Mystery solved........there ya have it. And if this doesn't result in

an avalanche of protest then I have completely lost hope for Americans. If we continue to refuse to see and respond to these blatant assaults on our democracy, what more is left?

This should be the place Americans make their stand...NOT Iraq.

[leftchick]

9. kick

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